Post by krayzeclown on Nov 20, 2016 0:40:03 GMT
Heyo! My name is Wade!
I usually go by Larry but feel free to call me Krayze or any of the above for simplicity's sake!
I was born and raised in the countryside of rural northern Tasmania and spent my childhood riding horses, playing soccer, doing martial arts and learning to game on the family desktop (Damn you Kellogg's and your free PC games!). Tasmania is that little island on the southern tip of the Australian mainland, see below:
I swapped schools a lot and eventually settled in Westbury (2008), a small town with a population of 1500. From here i traveled for more than an hour each day by bus to attend a Catholic College from ages 12-17 despite me being agnostic. I made some great new friends i still speak with to this day and had the opportunity to represent my state in various national championships for Soccer, Athletics and Martial Arts. In 2009 i was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression due to a mental illness known as Borderline Personality Disorder. Some of the symptoms were as follows:
In my spare time i still love to exercise, play video games (Minecraft, League of Legends and various other RPG's or shooters), i also work as a free-lance Personal Trainer whenever i'm not absorbed in the previous. Most recently i had a shoulder reconstruction after it was discovered my shoulder socket on the left side was actually flat! First they reattached the cartilage surrounding the glenoid which i managed to tear off (SLAP tear, 11 o'clock to 6 o'clock)., then they took a small piece of bone out of my hip and screwed it to the back of the glenoid, effectively creating a fallback mechanism to stop my shoulder dislocating frequently.
So where does that leave me...
Resting up is the answer! Playing video games, working from home and generally taking it easy! If there's anything else you'd like to know leave a reply or shoot me a message!
- Wade
I usually go by Larry but feel free to call me Krayze or any of the above for simplicity's sake!
I was born and raised in the countryside of rural northern Tasmania and spent my childhood riding horses, playing soccer, doing martial arts and learning to game on the family desktop (Damn you Kellogg's and your free PC games!). Tasmania is that little island on the southern tip of the Australian mainland, see below:
I swapped schools a lot and eventually settled in Westbury (2008), a small town with a population of 1500. From here i traveled for more than an hour each day by bus to attend a Catholic College from ages 12-17 despite me being agnostic. I made some great new friends i still speak with to this day and had the opportunity to represent my state in various national championships for Soccer, Athletics and Martial Arts. In 2009 i was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression due to a mental illness known as Borderline Personality Disorder. Some of the symptoms were as follows:
- Feeling 'empty', low self-esteem
- Paranoia or emotional detachment
- Anxiety about relationships, efforts to avoid being abandoned
- Impulsive, risky behaviour
- Self-harm, threatening or attempting suicide
- Anger, moodiness, irritability
... Just to name a few.
This turned my life upside down, i hurt a lot of people unintentionally and ended up in a pretty dark place with a dependence on drugs and alcohol. Slowly but surely i was able to reach out and get the help i needed with the support of my wonderful family and friends. I undertook so much research on the subjects in my downtime, i made many posts and enquiries about the topic of mental health and was eventually approached by an organisation devoted to raising awareness of said issues in our society. In early 2013 i moved to Victoria with my family, from here i started traveling the state, speaking at high schools, colleges and universities about various mental health issues, the truth about them and the negative stigmas attached to them (while also providing access to various help avenues). To this day i maintain the same job but in a more supervisory role, i still do get to speak at times but i spend most of the time writing, proofing and editing material for those within our organisation. I love my job and wouldn't change it for the world.In my spare time i still love to exercise, play video games (Minecraft, League of Legends and various other RPG's or shooters), i also work as a free-lance Personal Trainer whenever i'm not absorbed in the previous. Most recently i had a shoulder reconstruction after it was discovered my shoulder socket on the left side was actually flat! First they reattached the cartilage surrounding the glenoid which i managed to tear off (SLAP tear, 11 o'clock to 6 o'clock)., then they took a small piece of bone out of my hip and screwed it to the back of the glenoid, effectively creating a fallback mechanism to stop my shoulder dislocating frequently.
So where does that leave me...
Resting up is the answer! Playing video games, working from home and generally taking it easy! If there's anything else you'd like to know leave a reply or shoot me a message!
- Wade